Identifier: florascoticaorsy021ligh (
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Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the HebridesYear:
1777 (
1770s)Authors:
Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788Subjects:
Botany BotanyPublisher:
London, Printed for B. WhiteContributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:aced in thecili a, on the edges of the leaf andligasTjents.P* A variety of this fometimes occurs with a branchedftalk, and linear lanceolate leaves, two or threeinches long, and not more than about one-tenth of an inch wide, pinnated with lanceolateligaments like the preceding, but lefs ciliated,or with fewer dents. The principal differencetherefore confifts in the narrownefs of theleaves. This Fucus is eaten by the Scotch and Irijh,promifcuoufly with the F. palmatus orDulfe. ^ ligulatus. F. fronde membranacea lineari bipinnato-ligulata,27. ligulis enfiformibus ciliatis. Nova fpecies. Ligulated Fucus, Anglis.In the Frith of Forth, about New-Haven, and other places, but not common.Tiie color of this is a dull green ; the fubflancemembranaceous and pellucid, without rib ornerve, but the central ftalk (lightly cartilagi-nous ; the height of the whole plant two orthree feet; its width, including the branchesfairly expanded, fix or eight inches... . The $ ,^ •«» 1 •S g ?^ ? > iText Appearing After Image:CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. ^i,^ The middle ftalk is flat and linear, about one-fifth of an inch wide, and continued throughoutfrom the bafe to the fummit of the plant, endingacutely. This ftalk is doubly proliferous; for out of theedges, in a diftichous and oppofitely pinnatedorder, grow narrow, fword-fbaped, leafy liga-ments, from three to eight inches long, whichare again pinnated with fliorter but fimilar liga-ments, ciliated on the margins with the rudi- • ments of others, not much bigger tlian hairs. The primary ligaments are for the mod paregradually fhortened towards the fummit of theftalk, fo as at lafl to leave it fimply pinnated,and thereby give to the plant a nearly conicalform. The fruftifications v/e have never obfervd, butfuppofe they muft refide in the minute cilia ormarginal ligaments. laciniatus. F. frondibus ramofis mem.branaceis,ramis dilatatis28. palmatis, marginibus dentato-crifpatis. F. laci- uiatus. Hudf. Flcr. Angl. p. 475. n. 44. AnFUCUS vittatus. Lin. Syft. 7iat. eNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.